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  • Chinese Painted Button

    Breed Details: PICTURES BY quailladyoffortmyers from: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=420619&p=1 The incubation period is...

  • Roman Tufted

    Breed Details: I've read alot about Roman Tufted Geese (RTG) and I have some of my own. Roman Tufted Geese are a very good weed & bug controling...

  • peafowl

    Breed Details: Other color varieties include: White, Black Shoulder, Purple, Silver Pied, Opal, Cameo and Bronze. India Blue mixed with Green are...

  • Emu

    Breed Details: These birds can be very nice, or very evil. It depends on the upbringing. Emus will need to be handled when they are born so that...

  • Exhibition Dewlap Toulouse 469

    Breed Details: A stately and impressive large breed. Generally quiet and placid in nature. This is a slow to mature breed and it is often up to 3...

  • Exhibition Dewlap Toulouse

    Breed Details by Pete & Rob Banks (pete55): A stately and impressive large breed. Generally quiet and placid in nature. This is a slow to mature...

  • Eqyptian

    Breed Details: Both sexes have patches of chestnut-colored feathers around each eye. Some of them have gray-brown upper parts; others are...

  • Sebastopol

    Breed Details: Sebastopol Geese are an ornamental breed with little value as meat or egg production birds. Laying only 20-40 eggs per year with...

  • White Faced Whistling Duck

    Breed Details: The White-faced Whistling Duck, (Dendrocygna viduata), is a whistling duck which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa and much of South...

  • Helmeted Guineafowl

    Breed Details: Helmeted Guinefowl are in their own genus Numida, their scientific name being Numida meleagris; however they share their family...

  • Ruddy

    Breed Details: Average weight: 500 to 600 grams (about 1.1 to 1.3 pounds) Temperament: Ruddy ducks are exotic. They can be kept as pets, but will...

  • Pomeranian

    Breed Details: Pomeranian geese are a good dual purpose bird that lay around 70 eggs a year and average about 16lbs before processing. They like...

  • Homing Pigeon

    Breed Details: The birds care for their own young, and no intervention is necessary. Pairs raise 2 young at a time. Both take turns caring for the...

  • Ronquieres Turkey

    Breed Details: The Ronquieres is not a fantastic meat bird, but the quality taste is out of this world. Toms weigh in at about 10 kilograms, while...

  • American Standard Fantail Pigeon

    Breed Details: Twenty five recognized colors. Patterns include bar, check, t Check, self, barless, pied, saddle, tail mark and body mark. Have 30...

  • Khaki Campbell

    Breed Details: Khaki Campbell’s are a medium sized, light weight class bird weighing approximately 4 to 4 1/2 pounds. They have a slightly...

  • American

    Breed Details: Whatever you say about geese with conviction, they'll make a liar out of you, says Dave Holderread, waterfowl preservationist and...

  • Blue Slate

    Breed Details: They are called Blue Slates/Self Blues and Lavender. A slate is black based with a single dominant slate gene. Breeding: Slate to...
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